
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pike County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 18,351 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,039 | 100.0 | Native | 18,063 | 98.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 195 | 4.8 | Born in United States | 18,022 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 197 | 4.9 | State of residence | 13,710 | 74.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,046 | 50.7 | Different state | 4,312 | 23.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,172 | 29.0 | Born outside United States | 41 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 429 | 10.6 | Foreign born | 288 | 1.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 220 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 37 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,242 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 251 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,296 | 10.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,647 | 13.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,402 | 44.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 288 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,138 | 17.5 | Europe | 42 | 14.6 | |
| Associate degree | 508 | 4.1 | Asia | 62 | 21.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 805 | 6.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 446 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 182 | 63.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.0 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 0.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 17,377 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 14,906 | 100.0 | English only | 16,296 | 93.8 | |
| Never married | 3,598 | 24.1 | Language other than English | 1,081 | 6.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,776 | 52.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 416 | 2.4 | |
| Separated | 296 | 2.0 | Spanish | 495 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,170 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 220 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 875 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 498 | 2.9 | |
| Divorced | 2,066 | 13.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 141 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 717 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 78 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 50 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 18,351 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 243 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,840 | 86.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 135 | 55.6 | Arab | 63 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 25 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 29 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,017 | 100.0 | Dutch | 202 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,195 | 15.7 | English | 1,622 | 8.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 527 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 64 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,825 | 20.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,922 | 100.0 | Greek | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 442 | 11.3 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,794 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,841 | 10.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,664 | 18.9 | Italian | 271 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 57.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,130 | 81.1 | Norwegian | 93 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 79.3 | (X) | Polish | 74 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,427 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 954 | 39.3 | Russian | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 280 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 284 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 17,377 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 166 | 0.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,503 | 54.7 | Swedish | 153 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,597 | 43.7 | Swiss | 87 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 3,676 | 21.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,921 | 22.6 | United States or American | 3,139 | 17.1 | |
| Same state | 2,735 | 15.7 | Welsh | 137 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 1,186 | 6.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 277 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 2,906 | 15.8 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

